funny sayings and quotes about friends

The PC political correctness movement exists not in order to improve the well-being of those whose oppression it purports to combat. Rather, its purpose is to wrap its proponents in a kind of verbal comfort-blanket. ~Erik Kowal, as posted on wordwizard.com



We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake. ~Erich Fromm



The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. ~Theodore Rubin



Knock the "t" off the "can't." ~Samuel Johnson



The more laws the more offenders. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732



The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history. ~Benedetto Croce, History as the Story of Liberty



The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. ~Samuel Butler



One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ~Andre Gide



Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eating under a tree. ~Elizabeth Russell



Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh



There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be. ~George Sheehan



A smile appeared upon her face as if she'd taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it there. ~Loma Chandler



What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb



One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing. ~Frank Sheed



Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you're locked up. ~Author Unknown



To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. ~Theodore Roosevelt, seventh annual message, 3 December 1907



How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America? ~Author Unknown



We become aware of the void as we fill it. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Beginning," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. ~Henry Ford